Sentence examples for contract diarrhoea from inspiring English sources

People have to understand that children who contract diarrhoea, never mind cholera, cannot retain their food.

This is also the case in Ghana, where children living in houses with toilet facilities are about 50% less likely to contract diarrhoea than their counterparts in homes without toilet facilities (15).

The project also appeals to organisations with a drive to improve health, such as Bupa, having already had a dramatic impact on children under five, decreasing their odds of contracting diarrhoea by 21% and seeing a 37% decrease in the likelihood of dehydration.

Shama has contracted diarrhoea and has been vomiting, said Lado, looking worriedly at her young granddaughter.

However, during the early part of the outbreak, the highest risk of contracting diarrhoea was in Rimuka Township.

Hand washing in a single bowl [AOR = 2.89, 95% CI (1.33-6.28)] was an independent risk factor for contracting diarrhoea.

UNICEF has started providing regular deliveries of drinking water to the camp, which will reduce the risk of children contracting diarrhoea.

In Fiji, clear correlations exist between climate and diarrhoeal outbreaks and it is projected that the risk of contracting diarrhoea will increase (23), as changing patterns of rainfall can contribute to the contamination of surface and drinking water (3).

"We discovered that groundwater contamination was so severe that even after treatment, whole villages were contracting diarrhoea when they returned home and drank the same water," say district Health Education Officer Jagdish Jha.

Since the responses were binary, this study considered a logistic model to estimate the probability of a child having contracted diarrhoea, cough or fever (y i  = 1) versus the probability of a child not having contracted any of the three diseases (y i  = 0).

For instance, a study on the magnitude and determinants of stunting in children aged 5 years or younger in food surplus region of Ethiopia found males, children aged less than 7 months and children who contracted diarrhoea to be significantly more likely to be stunted [ 13].